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Being made on the side lines here that do not, frankly, involve the united states. principally between turkey and russia. so, you know, when i first saw evidence on social media that there was a raid into northwest syria, the allegations being made then were it was actually the turks that were invading in idlib province to mount some kind of special operations raid against al qaeda in idlib. now the reporting seems to suggest this is a u.s. raid targeting baghdadi. this is very strange, given the circumstances of the last two weeks, right? so i have a lot of questions about, a, how he got ther...

A pass on this one. it was due to the office and all that. but this is the kind of operation that you want decided at the tactical level because the commander on the ground on scene have to be able to react fast. i don't think you need to go up to the president every time you want to launch a special operations raid unless it's into a sensitive area outside of the already established zones of conflict. now if you're talking about yemen, syria, iraq, with we have ongoing operations there so you have to give the battlefield commander the man on the ground the decision making authority to conduct...

In august began, the video feed was shut off. the last time that had happened was in the run-up to the u.s. special operations raid on bin laden's compound in pakistan. talk about how tightly held this this was and contrast that to all of the wildly irresponsible language we hear in this climate about some deep state. this was the deep state on lockdown. >> yeah. it was. i mean, they were taking extraordinary precautions and they established the very tiny compartments to hold this information. it wasn't only at the white house at the cia director john brennan formed a task force. he was pullin...

That two u.s. service members were killed during an operation targeting inside afghanistan. the incident happened in the auction district. another soldier was killed there earlier this month. so also the area where the pentagon dropped that massive mother of all bombs as it's called. bent g pentagon reporter ryan brown is joining us. >> these service members were part of a special operations raid, joint u.s. afghan raid right there on the pakistan/afghanistan border. very remote area. it's kind of where isis has established its main kind of center, its main headquarters. very difficult area to...

We have to go back in that area to get them out of there. i don't know who these soldiers are, whether they were advisors or whether this was a special operations raid, but certainly the afghan army bears the brunt of the task to take it that safe haven down we've got to stick with it. if isis forms, that is not a threat to the region, it's also a threat to the united states. >> jenna: do you think is current and administration is doing enough to talk about afghanistan and explain our priorities there as a nation? >> i think what's happening, that's a great question, is general mcmaster, the n...